קָדֵשׁ בַּרְנֵעַ
Kadesh-barnea
BDB lists 2 entries for ‘Kadesh-barnea’ fuller range ↓
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
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Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Noun type
- Proper
- A name of a specific person, place, or people (e.g. Abraham, Zion, Israel).
Every verse where H6947 appears in the Book of Numbers — 2 distinct verses. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Hebrew form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Hebrew Bible; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences are not indexed here.
Numbers
- Numbers 32:8 מִ/קָּדֵ֥שׁ בַּרְנֵ֖עַ prep + n Proper n Proper Thus did your fathers, when I sent them from Kadesh-barnea to see the land.
- Numbers 34:4 לְ/קָדֵ֣שׁ בַּרְנֵ֑עַ prep + n Proper n Proper and your border shall turn about southward of the ascent of Akrabbim, and pass along to Zin; and the goings out of it shall be southward of Kadesh-barnea; and it shall go forth to Hazar Addar, and pass along to Azmon;
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
“Kadesh-barnea” is the headline sense of the Hebrew name קדש ברנע (Qâdêsh Barnêaʻ). First canonically at Numbers 32:8, it enters the text early. It appears 10 verses across 3 books of the Hebrew Bible, among its uncommon vocabulary. More than a third of its appearances fall in Deuteronomy. See 10-verse concordance and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H6947 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 10
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 10 distinct verses.
- 3 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 3 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #1,513
- by frequency
- Top 2500 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 1,513 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 10 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Deuteronomy 4 verses 40%
- Joshua 4 verses 40%
- Numbers 2 verses 20%
By section of the Old Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 10 distinct verses.
- Torah (Pentateuch) 6 verses · 60%
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 4 verses · 40%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Kadeshbarnea 9×
- American Standard Version: Kadesh-barnea 7×
- Berean Standard Bible: Kadesh-barnea 10×, From 3×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Kadesh barnea 12×, Barnea 4×, Kadesh 4×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H6947 across 10 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H6947 across 10 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 3 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H6947 across 14 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 3 further occurrences.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H6947 across 20 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Senses in BDB
The 2 senses BDB distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- Kadesh-barnea = "holy"
- a city in the extreme south of Judah
Word origin
Derived from קדש (Qâdêsh) (H6946) — Kadesh.
Forms in the corpus
The 11 distinct written forms H6947 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that state’s occurrences in the concordance. Hebrew forms include their vowel points and cantillation, so a single lemma takes many written forms.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| בַּרְנֵ֖עַ | Noun, Proper | Joshua 10:41 | 3 |
| בַּרְנֵֽעַ | Noun, Proper | Deuteronomy 1:2 | 3 |
| מִ/קָּדֵ֥שׁ | Noun, Proper | Joshua 10:41 | 3 |
| בַּרְנֵ֑עַ | Noun, Proper | Joshua 15:3 | 2 |
| לְ/קָדֵ֣שׁ | Noun, Proper | Joshua 15:3 | 2 |
| קָדֵ֥שׁ | Noun, Proper | Deuteronomy 1:2 | 2 |
| בְּ/קָדֵ֥שׁ | Noun, Proper | Joshua 14:6 | 1 |
| בַּרְנֵ֗עַ | Noun, Proper | Deuteronomy 2:14 | 1 |
| בַּרְנֵ֨עַ֙ | Noun, Proper | Deuteronomy 9:23 | 1 |
| מִ/קָּדֵ֣שׁ | Noun, Proper | Deuteronomy 2:14 | 1 |
| מִ/קָּדֵ֤שׁ | Noun, Proper | Deuteronomy 9:23 | 1 |
Bible dictionary
Public-domain dictionary articles matched to this entry by name (Kadesh-barnea). A biblical name can be shared by more than one person or place, so an article may treat several.
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary · Roswell D. Hitchcock, 1869
holiness of an inconstant son
Classic public-domain reference works; full attribution on Sources.
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 10 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 10 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
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This is a verse-level parallel only — the same verses exist in both the Hebrew and Greek Old Testaments. No word-level Hebrew↔Greek correspondence is claimed: the data carries no such alignment, so no Greek word is shown as this Hebrew word’s translation. Coverage is not total — the Septuagint omits the deuterocanon and renumbers the Psalms, so some Hebrew verses have no direct Greek parallel.
